Full tournament table here.
This is Iyama Yuta’s first major title in Japanese Go, but I am sure we’ll see more of him.
Cho U is still the dominant player in Japan based on the number of titles he is holding right now (four out of seven).

Yamashita Keigo leads Cho Chikun 3-1 in the Kisei Title match.
Yamashita won game 4 in which Cho seemed to have had a comfortable position for the first 160 moves or so.
White’s slack play a little bit earlier allowed Black to play a beautiful double purpose move with 165 (the circle marked Black stone in the lower right) which threatens White’s positions on both lower and right sides. In the game Cho defended his right hand side group and Yamashita laid wasted on White’s lower side territory. The diagram shows what happens if White defends the lower side instead: his right side group dies.

Chang Hao was unstoppable and he defeated Park Yeonghun too (game record here).
Some interesting action happened in the upper right quarter of the board: first Black built a huge moyo there…

… then White managed to reduce it in a spectacular fashion, but Black kept enough of it to have a good lead.

Chang Hao proved again that he is a great champion – I became his fan when he came to the WAGC in 1990 as the Chinese representative (he was 14) and he won with a perfect 8-0 score (that was my first WAGC as the Romanian representative).

The final Chinese team member, Gu Li, didn’t have to play a single game during this Nongshim Cup.

Ishida Yoshio 9p is participates in the game commentary after the second game in the picture above
Here’s the beginning of the game – click on the board to download the game record for the second and final game. (Here’s the game record for the first game.)

“Old lion still has teeth”: Cho Chikun Judan won the playoff against Cho U to earn the right to challenge Yamashita Keigo for his Kisei title, according to Go Topics.

It will be a very interesting match: Cho Chikun has already defeated Yamashita earlier this year, in his defense of the Judan title.
Let’s see how Yamashita Kisei will defend his title against Cho.
Cho Chikun seems to be the only representative of the old Kitani school which can still win titles nowadays, not giving up to the new generation of players in Japan.
Go, Cho Sensei!

They said that July 7th 2007 (07-07-07) is a very lucky day (since number 7 is considered lucky). It was indeed a lucky day for the Korean Go, but not so for the Japanese Go: the semifinals of Fujitsu saw the 2 Korean players winning against the 2 Japanese players, so the final will be all Korean.
Park Yeonghun defeated Yoda Norimoto by half a point, while Lee Changho defeated Cho U by resignation.
Go the the tournament page for the Lee Changho – Cho U game, with Cyberoro variations.
The final will be played on July 9th, in Japan.